Conor Cunneen

Conor Cunneen – IrishmanSpeaks

Substance with Humor to Improve People Performance & Productivity – with a smile!

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Micro-Goal #2 to a GREAT Workplace: Hear the words “Thank You.”

Definitions:

B-HAG = Big Hairy Audacious Goal.

S-HAG = Small HIGHLY Achievable Goal (also referred to as a Micro-Goal)

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Your B-HAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is to create a great workplace with engaged employees and world class productivity.

As I have indicated previously, these things don’t happen just because you want them to happen. That B-HAG will only occur (if at all) through the implementation of S-HAGs (Small Highly Achievable Goals.)

The idea behind S-HAGs or Micro-Goals is that deliberate daily implementation of them will change your work environment and your relationship with colleagues. These goals appear almost simplistic. The irony is that very few of us regularly implement and achieve them.

Let’s have a look at Micro-Goal #2 to a GREAT workplace.

HEAR the words “Thank You” every day from your work colleagues

This Micro-Goal is to HEAR the words “Thank You” each day. “Huh?” I hear you say!

My challenge to you is to go into work tomorrow with the deliberate intention to HEAR “Thank You.”

Quite likely, a few times today, someone said “Thank You” to you, but it probably went over your head and you paid little heed to it.

However, if you set yourself a Micro-Goal to HEAR “Thank You,” what will happen?

You will have to do something to generate “Thank You.”

In generating “Thank You,” you are obviously helping a work colleague in at least some slight way.

When you HEAR “Thank You,” you are going to feel slightly better about yourself because you have achieved a goal.

Now, that you feel good because of satisfying a Small Highly Achievable Goal, you are quite likely to be motivated to deliberately do something else to again HEAR “Thank You.”

All those work colleagues that you helped are going to appreciate you more.

You are creating a better work environment and likely a more engaged workforce.

PHONE Conor at 630 718 1643 to discuss how he can help you Improve People, Performance and Productivity – with a smile!

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Conor Cunneen – IrishmanSpeaks is an Irish keynote speaker, author and business humorist who claims to be happily exiled in Chicago, where he says the natives are friendly and he has been force fed more corned beef than he ever had in Ireland

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Conor Cunneen – IrishmanSpeaks

Substance with Humor to Improve People Performance & Productivity – with a smile!

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Micro Goal #1 to a GREAT Workplace: Complement Your Work Colleagues

Definitions:

B-HAG = Big Hairy Audacious Goal.

S-HAG = Small HIGHLY Achievable Goal (also referred to as a Micro-Goal)

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Your B-HAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is to create a great workplace with engaged employees and world class productivity.

Unfortunately, these things don’t happen just because you want them to happen. That B-HAG has a significantly better chance of happening through the deliberate implementation of S-HAGs (Small Highly Achievable Goals.)

Goal Achievement makes me and you feel good. So, why not find ways to feel good and upbeat. In other words, why not set yourself some Small Highly Achievable Goals, that you know you can achieve.

Small Highly Achievable Goals that when you achieve them, you feel better and you have probably made a difference to your work colleagues as well. Over coming days, I will identify some of these S-HAGs or Micro-Goals that can make a difference to your workplace.

Micro-Goal (S-HAG) #1: Complement Your Work Colleagues

PHONE Conor at 630 718 1643 to discuss how he can help you Improve People, Performance and Productivity – with a smile!

Substance with Humor to:

Improve People Performance & Productivity – with a smile!

Conor Cunneen – IrishmanSpeaks is an Irish keynote speaker, author and business humorist who claims to be happily exiled in Chicago, where he says the natives are friendly and he has been force fed more corned beef than he ever had in Ireland

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D for Dublin: I for Irish Independence: M for Music: Q for (The) Quiet Man

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P for Patrick: R for Riverdance: U for U2: V for Vikings

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Written by Conor Cunneen and illustrated by Mark Anderson, For the Love of Being Irish features all the humor, passion and history of Ireland.

Conor Cunneen provides history and personality of Ireland via limericks, well researched content and OK, maybe a touch of blarney which is then magnificently illustrated by Mark Anderson.

Author Conor Cunneen is a Corkman happily exiled in Chicago, where he says the Guinness is drinkable, the natives are friendly and he has been force-fed more corned beef and green beer than he ever had in Ireland.

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W for Wilde, X for (e)Xile, Y for Yeats: Z for Zig Zag roads

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Best Irish Books and Gifts for Patrick’s Day

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As a man who had a decidedly jaundiced (he would say accurate view) of politics, he probably would not be surprised. Here is a selection of this thoughts that might just as well have been written today. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

There is no doubt though that Twain had a particular fondness for Ulysses S. Grant. They were on opposite sides during the Civil War (at least initially) but Twain came to see a goodness in Grant that bordered on brotherly love as the ex-President, dying of cancer, struggled to finish his memoirs. Continue reading →

Oh, my aching back! I’ve spend much of the past week raking and blowing, blowing and raking the last of those Fall leaves while uttering the odd profanity, like “Gee, Golly Gosh, where can all those leaves possibly come from?”

It got me thinking about the power of Fall leaves and what job seekers can learn can learn from them. I find it intriguing that when I pile all those leaves together, they stick together even in windy conditions! But the single leaf – on its own, with no support structure – gets blown away.Continue reading →

M-TOPP: Mark Twain on Politics and Politicians

Respect for the Pirate, Not the Politician

He was a pirate with a tremendous and sanguinary history; and as long as he preserved unspotted, in retirement, the dignity of his name and the grandeur of his ancient calling, homage and reverence were his from high and low; but when at last he descended into politics and became a paltry alderman, the public ‘shook’ him, and turned aside and wept.

M-TOPP: Mark Twain on Politics and Politicians

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Mark Twain on Politics: Tammany, High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Twain despised the shenanigans and lack of integrity for the political system and was mutually critical of both sides. He reserved particular angry commentary for the corrupt politics of Tammany Hall and in particular Richard “Boss” Croker who dominated and manipulated New York politics for the latter years of the nineteenth century. Croker is one of the few bad things to come from my home county of Cork, Ireland!

This diatribe from Twain is modeled on a famous Edmund Burke House of Commons speech calling for the impeachment of Warren Hastings, Governor General of India.

I Impeach Richard Croker

I impeach Richard Croker of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the people, whose trust he has betrayed.